Warcraft III

There are probably a few gamers out there who aren't familiar with the Warcraft universe but I'm not sure who they are. Blizzard is a legend in their own right, beginning as a small console company that made addictively quirky console games and then exploded by nearly creating the RTS (real time strategy) game in early DOS graphics days with the first Warcraft game. Game magazines cover a new Blizzard game the way Rolling Stone would treat a lost Beatles album being discovered.

Warcraft has become its own brand with action figures, clothing, more RTS games, a MMORPG, novels, graphic novels, art books, DVDs and thier own convention.

We at the Gaming Zone are expanding into PC Gaming at the next Friday Night Free For All with Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. These are the terminal games of the Warcraft RTS line and although a few years old still considered some of the best RTSes ever made, still selling heavily and competed in at tournaments world wide. At a good five years old, both still sell better than many new games!

Of course, this is all nice but we aren't satisfied with that. We're going just a bit further with how you'll be able to play them. Combined Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne offer hundreds of hours of play time going through an intricate series of stories in campaign mode. And if you want to do that we'll have cheat codes to let you do as you please but frankly, the real fun comes in competing against another human being and having them push you to your creative and strategic limits.

Blizzard has long supported this through Battle.net, a gaming service that lets players go up against each other. But that's just not cool enough and tomorrow I'll tell you what we're doing to go one better.